Publication

2016 - Palgrave Macmillan, England

Language

English

Word Count

36,500 words, Guess

Page Count

146 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101137580194
  • ISBN-101137580186
  • ISBN-139781137580191
  • ISBN-139781137580184
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016951095
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number939995213
  • Better World Books9781137580184
  • Better World Books9781137580191
  • Open LibraryOL27219980M

Classifications

  • DDC330
  • LCCHC59.3 .W48 2016
  • LCCHB71-74

Description

Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of what went wrong, very little has substantially changed. Perhaps the answer has something to do with power; a subject on which economics is unusually quiet. Whilst economics may be able to discuss bargaining power and market power, it fails to explore the reciprocal connections between economic ideas and politics: the political power of economic ideas on the one side, and the influence of power structures on economic thought on the other. This book explores how the supposedly neutral discipline of economics does not simply describe human behaviour, but in fact shapes it.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Who runs the economy?Palgrave Macmillan2016

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